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trammel noun A trammel net traditionally has three layers, with the middle one finer-meshed and slack so that fish passing through the first net carry some of the center net through the coarser third net and are trapped. Appropriately, trammel traces back through the Middle English tramayle and the Old French tramail to the Late Latin tremaculum, which comes from Latin tres, meaning "three," and macula, meaning "mesh." Today, the plural trammels is synonymous with restraints, and trammel is also used as a verb meaning "to confine" or "to enmesh." You may also run across the adjective untrammeled, meaning "not confined or limited." 1 : something impeding activity, progress, or freedom : restraint — usually used in plural2 : a net for catching birds or fish; especially : trammel net3 : an adjustable pothook for a fireplace crane4 : a shackle used for making a horse amble5 a : ellipsographb : beam compass

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January 19, 2018 TRAM-ul In her memoir, the singer asserts that her musicianship was ultimately hampered by the trammels of fame."We learn a good deal about [Doc] Holliday: his grief at the passing of his mother when he was a teenager, his early career as an Ivy League-trained dentist, his quickness on the draw, his self-reinvention as an adventurer-wanderer, his yearning to shed the trammels of the conventional life." — Richard Bernstein, The New York Times, 22 Aug. 2001

Word	trammel
Date	January 19, 2018
Type	noun
Syllables	TRAM-ul
Etymology	A trammel net traditionally has three layers, with the middle one finer-meshed and slack so that fish passing through the first net carry some of the center net through the coarser third net and are trapped. Appropriately, trammel traces back through the Middle English tramayle and the Old French tramail to the Late Latin tremaculum, which comes from Latin tres, meaning "three," and macula, meaning "mesh." Today, the plural trammels is synonymous with restraints, and trammel is also used as a verb meaning "to confine" or "to enmesh." You may also run across the adjective untrammeled, meaning "not confined or limited."
Examples	In her memoir, the singer asserts that her musicianship was ultimately hampered by the trammels of fame. "We learn a good deal about [Doc] Holliday: his grief at the passing of his mother when he was a teenager, his early career as an Ivy League-trained dentist, his quickness on the draw, his self-reinvention as an adventurer-wanderer, his yearning to shed the trammels of the conventional life." — Richard Bernstein, The New York Times, 22 Aug. 2001
Definition	1 : something impeding activity, progress, or freedom : restraint — usually used in plural 2 : a net for catching birds or fish; especially : trammel net 3 : an adjustable pothook for a fireplace crane 4 : a shackle used for making a horse amble 5 a : ellipsograph b : beam compass

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